If you've had a product in mind that would sell a few million through
infomercial advertising, your idea could be one of the next big hits As
Seen On TV! Edison Nation has partnered with some
of the best direct response (DRTV) firms in the country to find the best
innovative products for 'As Seen On TV' Innovative Product Search.

If you're good at coming up with names for products, Edison Nation has
got just the competition for you. The online intermediary between
inventors and big companies has added Name Searches to its Live Product
Searches. Entries to its first naming competition are due January 18,
2010, so you better get started!

The substance abuse division (SAMHSA)
of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) learned some
interesting information about how boomers get high these days. The
department is fixing to get more funding, I guess, because it reports
that in our (even) later years, we're going to need added substance abuse treatment services. Us?

This week Google bought a power plant and manufactured their first smartphone, the Nexus One. Granted, Google is ubiquitous, but who would of thought that Google would eventually find its way into our bathrooms.

In a recent blog, titled "The Secret Wars of Google & Apple..." there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term 'war' was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public. As reticent as they both are in that regard, Apple and Google can be most cantankerous when pitted against each other. Watch as the Titans of Technology take each other on in uncharted waters.

Fords That Facebook, Tauruses That Tweet, SUVs That Search The Internet! Social Network going mobile just took on a whole new meaning. When you think of social networking going mobile, you think of location-based and geolocation apps developed for smartphones.

When you can't get things done the way you'd like them done - Diversify, Diversify, Diversify! Google staying true to itself...that is, doing whatever it bloody well likes - has applied for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be allowed to buy and sell power much like utilities do.

His name is Cashmore, but is his company cashable? Might Mashable, the number one Social Media Blog in the world entertain an offer from AOL? Already having acquiring Endgadget but having lost its high-techie appeal over the years, AOL needs something like Mashable to distinguish itself in the social media space - a territory that has up till now eluded them.

The inventor of the famous Neuticles (plastic testicles for dogs that made Number 2 on my list of dumbest pet products) has come out with his second dog prosthesis: PermaStay Ear Implants for dogs. Oh, they're not about helping your dog hear better; they're about perking up floppy ears.

If mice could use cell phones they would never get Alzheimer's disease,
new findings from the Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
(ADRC) reveal. But don't laugh yet: more studies like this could
result in non-intervention, non-drug treatments to reverse Alzheimer's
disease and even prevent it from ever developing.

The big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas (January 7-10) was 3-D TVs. While Steve Ballmer's introduction of his new Microsoft Tablet is expected to compete head-on with Apple's launch of their new iSlate/Tablet in March, it appears that the influence of the movie Avatar's 3-D technology is stretching from the large screen to the small screen.

Now that Microsoft is reportedly going to show off their own slate/tablet computing device, the eReader vs Multimedia device "game" is on! eReaders like Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's Nook and Sony's Readers are fine for 'reading,' but if you want to multi-task, you'll find they come up short every time. Apple's soon-to-be released iSlate/ tablet and Google's reported launch of a netbook, coupled with Microsoft, could initiate a technological shift as to which type of device is going to take center stage.

With the heightened popularity of hand-held devices in 2009, eReaders took the number one spot as the top gift item this past holiday season. And it appears even with the soon-to-be released Apple iSlate and the proposed Google Netbook nothing is going to stop Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Noble's Nook and Sony's Readers from continuing to battle it out for market share.

I saw the story's headline this morning on Reuters.com: "Limits to antidepressants' effectiveness," but as I read beyond the headline, I learned that the effects of only two antidepressant medications (the generic versions of Paxil and Tofranil) were studied in the research purportedly demonstrating that all or most antidepressants have little effect on mild to moderately depressed persons.

I've covered a cardboard cafe and a cardboard office, but this is the first time I've seen the entire interior architecture of a guest house designed in cardboard. And, if that is not novel enough, the guest house is part of a villa that is literally carved into a mountain.

Less than a month ago, at the 2009 International Electron Devices
Meeting (IEDM), researchers from Stanford University presented their
solution for a retinal implant that has the potential to restore vision
in those who lose sight due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD),
retinitis pigmentosa (RP), and certain other retinal disorders.

While Google Analytics is ubiquitous for tracking Web site traffic, it lacks in real-time analytics. Similar to how real-time search escaped Google's grasp until it's recent partnership deals with Twitter and Facebook, the grand-daddy of search engines hasn't yet been able to put its collective brain trust around real-time web stats.

If you've been dying to purify the air that surrounds your pet as he
navigates your home, yard, and the world at large, then you can relax.
The invention - the Ionizing Air Purifier for Pets - to end all
allergic reactions and bad smells that irritate you and your pet is now
available for your pet to wear 24/7 on an accompanying harness.

While we were downing martinis and dog sleds, celebrating the holidays, researchers at University of California (UC) San Diego, MIT, and UC Santa Barbara were creating nano cocktails to be downed by tumor cells. Your cocktails may have slowed you down a bit, but the nano cocktails were designed to be killers - cancer killers.

... Overall the trends are going for more of the same: more mix and match of colors, styles, and textures, a continued interest in the collection of artisan works as opposed to brand name items, and an anything goes attitude when it comes to fitting pieces into your decor.
But what interested me most were the posited trends for layered flooring and wallpapered ceilings - ones I think that can make the biggest bang for your buck

Foursquare, the young-upstart, game-like location-based social network has gained a lot of traction not only for its unique geolocation services, but also from the 'freebies' Mayors can obtain competitively on its API. 2010 is going to be the year of geo-targeting and unless Twitter and Facebook make their move and out maneuver the little guy, Foursquare may dominate the world of location-based commerce.